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Touch and the Ancient Senses (Paperback)

Ancient History > Ancient Greece & the Hellenistic World Ancient History > Rome & the Roman Provinces

Imprint: Routledge
Series: The Senses in Antiquity
Pages: 230
Illustrations: 20 Halftones, black and white
ISBN: 9781844658725
Published: 20th November 2017
Casemate UK Academic

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Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also provides a primary point of contact between the individual and the outside world. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which touch plays a defining role in science, art, philosophy, and medicine, and shapes our understanding of topics ranging from aesthetics and poetics to various religious and ritual practices. Whether we locate the sense of touch on the surface of the skin, within the body or - less tangibly still - within the emotions, the sensory impact of touching raises a broad range of interpretive and phenomenological questions.  This is the first volume of its kind to explore the sense of touch in antiquity, bringing a variety of disciplinary approaches to bear on the sense that is usually disregarded as the most base and obvious of the five. In these pages, by contrast, we find in touch a complex and fascinating indicator of the body's relation to object, environment, and self.

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